That is probably more accurate than this reference, (Admin note: Surf with caution)

Ihab starts refuting individual abrogation claims with a table of abrogated and abrogating verses on pages 315-323 of his book. The table also appears in the quoted reference above and in a King Fahd Assembly webpage. On both sites the numbering skips between 35 and 37, so there are only 44 cases not 45. Ihab does the numbering right, and mentions that the source of the table is research on Ibn Al-Jawzi's book without identifying the researcher. He adds his own name to the column "against" in all of the cases.

I counted the cases approved by Al-Suyuti on the webpage and Ihab's book, and they seem to be more on the webpage than in the book, so I suspect there are errors on the list (I didn't bother checking against Al-Suyuti's actual list). The quoted post above also points out a discrepancy in the cases of Makki. There is a case in the table that is not approved by anyone (4:92/5:9), so I am not sure why it was included. I was hoping that this table would be the set of 'serious cases' since it appears in more than one spot, but I don't think it was carefully done.

The table also appears in the quoted reference above and in a King Fahd Assembly webpage. On both sites the numbering skips between 35 and 37, so there are only 44 cases not 45. Ihab does the numbering right, and mentions that the source of the table is research on Ibn Al-Jawzi's book without identifying the researcher. He adds his own name to the column "against" in all of the cases.

I counted the cases approved by Al-Suyuti on the webpage and Ihab's book, and they seem to be more on the webpage than in the book, so I suspect there are errors on the list (I didn't bother checking against Al-Suyuti's actual list). The quoted post above also points out a discrepancy in the cases of Makki. There is a case in the table that is not approved by anyone (4:92/5:9), so I am not sure why it was included. I was hoping that this table would be the set of 'serious cases' since it appears in more than one spot, but I don't think it was carefully done.

Thanks for that info. I hadn't noticed your two observations about the case table before. You're right. I counted As-Suyooti's cases in the table and they are twenty, which is correct. We have the correct list in this post above in this topic, compiled from his book الإتقان في علوم القرآن.

We have not entered the 4:92/5:9 case yet, as I have not seen it in any of the books we studied so far. The closest we have to this is 5:1/4:92, but it claims that 4:92 is the abrogated verse, not the abrogating one.

We will have to construct our own table. We have the building blocks for it: In all case topics we keep a record of all opinions for and against the case in a post entitled "Who said what".

Since this author comes across as serious and balanced, the list may be a good set of the 'serious cases' that we are trying to identify. He does not comment on how he chose them (in what I have read so far).

On page 80 of his book, Al-Zalmi mentions that the total number of verses in the Quran that include a ruling does not exceed 500 verses. This seems lower than I would imagine, but if it is an accurate number it makes the abrogation claims look even more ridiculous since they would be covering more than 50% of all the verses in the Quran that include rulings.

In this post, I wish to list all the abrogation cases we studied and provide a link to each one. This will make it easier to locate the discussions and also keep a count of the cases. The index below will not include the verses claimed abrogated by the sword verse, 9:5. For that particular index, please visit this other post above.

As of this writing, we now have discussions about 365 abrogation claims, one for each day of the calendar year!

Update: As of August 6th, 2013, we now have 424 claims affecting 383 verses! Given what you wrote below, Pragmatic, it seems that the opinion of the pro-abrogation folk would lead to annulling almost all rulings of the Quran!

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